Ian Hussey

Statistical Reporting Assessment

Even if your data and code are publicly available, you can still fall at the last hurdle by not reporting the correct numbers in a manuscript. Luckily, the statcheck library can check this for you.

Specifically, it:

extracts all the analyses reported in your manuscript

takes the test statistics and df and recomputes p values

compares the recomputed p value with the p value reported in the manuscript to check for reporting errors, and also for APA compliance.

This can also be very useful when peer reviewing others’ manuscripts! statcheck provides an option to read .pdf files, although this requires XPDF, which I’ve found tricky to get installed correctly on Mac.